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(Application filed Jan. 98, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ISAAO PAOIINER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SALI SIMONSON, OF SAME PLACE.

CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,839, dated. June 4, 1901. Application filed January 28, 1901. Serial No. 44,461. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC PACHNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manhattan borough, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Caps, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention a cap or headgear is obtained which can be let down or have its band let down for protection, as in severe weather, and which band is arranged to maintain a neat appearance when lowered or raised, as set forth in the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the cap, the band being folded up, so as to sit about the crown. Fig. 2 shows the cap in side elevation, the band being let down for better protection of the head. Fig. 3 shows a modification.

The cap or its crown is indicated at 1, the vizor at 2, and a band at 3. The band has the fold 3, by means of which the band is connected to the cap or crown, and the invention resides in making such fold 3 shallower in front than at the back, which can be done by having the stitching 4., securing the fold to the crown, running around the latter at an inclination relatively to the lower edge of the cap. The rear portion of the band is thus of greater width or has greater play than the front part, so that when it is desired to unfold the cap or pull the band over the wearers ears and back of neck such band will adequately cover those parts, While preventing the front part of the band being pulled so far over the vizor as would cause such front part to wrinkle or form creases. If the front part of the band over the vizor is fixed or has no play or slide up or down, the band cannot be pulled down so well over the ears and back of the head and will be apt to strain or wrinkle or assume an awkward or unsightly position.

If the front part of the band is left entirely free or unattached, an opening is left which causes more or less exposure, such exposure in practice having been found to occur at or about the ears of the wearer. If the front of the band has the same degree of up-and-down play as the back, such front, when the band has been lowered, was found to wrinkle or bag on a fixed vizor, or if the vizor were carried by such band-front the vizor would lower over the face or eyes.

The stitch running unbrokenly or continu ously around or entirely about the cap or the side or body of the cap the band is held closed or no opening or exposure results, as has been found in case of interrupted stitching or sewing running only part way about the cap.

By cutting the band on an incline corresponding substantially with the inclined line of stitching material is saved, as the two complementary or duplicate portions at opposite sides of the out can each be used as a band to be secured in place by an inclined line of stitching or equivalent means.

The lap at 3 could be plain, as in Fig. 2, or have a trimming or braid or ornamental appearance, which I do not deem it necessary to illustrate.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cap, a band foldable on itself on the cap, and fastening means for uniting the band to the cap, inclined relatively to and above the lower edge of the cap, and said band having an edge inclined relatively to the lower edge of the cap and said inclination corresponding with that of the fastening means.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC PACIINER.

XVitnesses:

W. O. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

